The US Congress building on Capitol Hill in Washington. File photoWASHINGTON, May 14.Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul, who blocked the day before a fast-track vote to allocate $40 billion to Kyiv, said he wants Ukraine to succeed, but not at the cost of US bankruptcy. He spoke about this on the WMAL DC radio station. Earlier, the senator did not agree with the bill submitted to Congress, proposing an amendment that would involve tightening supervision over the spending of funds to help Kyiv. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer rejected the initiative.
"I really sympathize with Ukraine and wish it succeeds, but I don't want it to happen at the cost of our country's bankruptcy", Paul said.< /p>The refusal of at least one senator leads to blocking the process of considering the initiative in an accelerated format. Now members of the upper house of parliament will discuss the document on new assistance to Ukraine in the usual way. The House of Representatives approved this bill at the beginning of the week. At the end of April, US President Joe Biden asked Congress to allocate 33 billion to support Kyiv, but the legislature subsequently increased this amount to 40 billion.«Not a cent to Zelensky!» Another US congressman refused to arm Ukraine Russia has been conducting a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine since February 24. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation. Against this background, the United States and its NATO allies continue to pump weapons to Ukraine. The day before, President Joe Biden signed a lend-lease law that simplifies the provision of military assistance to it. Moscow has repeatedly stated that the supply of Western weapons only prolongs the conflict, and the transport of weapons becomes a legitimate target. In addition, Western countries have imposed new sanctions against Russia, however, from -for this, they faced high inflation in the fuel and food markets.